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The timeline below has a list of every event that happens according to the Harry Potter book series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Tales of Beedle the Bard and Quidditch Through the Ages.

The date or month of specific events could be estimated if the events of the books are tracked. For example, the events leading up to Harry's eleventh birthday in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone are told day-to-day.[1] Rowling does often get the date in the story wrong according to the real-world calendar. If she says Harry's birthday is on a Tuesday when in the real-world, it was a Sunday, the timeline will still say it is Tuesday according to the books.

B.C.

10th century

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

  • Quidditch is now very popular in Europe.[17]
  • The persecution of witches and wizards increases in Europe.[18]
  • Malecrit writes the play Hélas, Je me suis Transfiguré Les Pieds.[17]
  • Beater bats are enchanted to make their swing more powerful.[15]
  • 1402: The Caerphilly Catapults is founded.[9]
  • 1419: The Wizards' Council makes an announcement that Quidditch can't be played in any place that a Muggle may be watching unless the players wish to be chained in a dungeon.[16]
  • 1422: The Wigtown Wanderers is founded.[9]
    • Lisette de Lapin is convicted of using magic by Muggles but goes missing from her cell the evening of her scheduled execution the next day.[19]
  • 1473: The first Quidditch World Cup is held between Flanders and Transylvania. Every single one of the 700 known fouls in Quidditch is committed.[9]
  • 31 October 1492: Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is executed when he makes Lady Grieve grow tusks. It takes over 45 blows until Nicholas is finally killed but he still isn't headless.[20]

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Please go to one of these pages for the events that happen in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998

21st century

2017

Notes and sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 2
  2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5
  3. 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Two: Ancient Broom Games
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Four: The Arrival of the Golden Snitch
  7. 7.0 7.1 Quidditch Through the Ages: The Evolution of the Flying Broomstick
  8. Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Three: The Game From Queerditch Marsh
  9. 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 9.16 9.17 9.18 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 7: Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland
  10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 12
  11. 11.0 11.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 11
  12. 12.0 12.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Introduction (What is a Beast?)
  13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Archived information from the old version of JKRowling.com: W.O.M.B.A.T. test (Grade 3)
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Six: Changes in Quidditch Since the Fourteenth Century
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Five: Anti-Muggle Precautions
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Eight: The Spread of Quidditch Worldwide
  18. 18.0 18.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard: Albus Dumbledore's notes on The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
  19. 19.0 19.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard: Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
  20. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8
  21. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Basilisk)
  22. Archived information from the old version of JKRowling.com: W.O.M.B.A.T. test (Grade 2)
  23. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5
  24. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16
  25. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
  26. The Tales of Beedle the Bard: The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
  27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 16
  28. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 7
  29. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 14
  30. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22
  31. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 31
  32. 32.0 32.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Introduction (A Brief History of Muggle Awareness of Fantastic Beasts)
  33. 33.0 33.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Lethifold)
  34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 15
  35. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Acromantula)
  36. Chocolate Frog Card
  37. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Shrake)
  38. 38.00 38.01 38.02 38.03 38.04 38.05 38.06 38.07 38.08 38.09 38.10 38.11 38.12 38.13 Quidditch Through the Ages: The Development of the Racing Broom
  39. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Augurey)
  40. 40.0 40.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 18
  41. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 28
  42. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: About the Author
  43. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2017 edition): Foreword by the Author
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 44.5 44.6 44.7 44.8 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 10
  45. 45.0 45.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Introduction (Magical Beasts in Hiding)
  46. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13
  47. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 - "The pages of the diary began to blow as though caught in a high wind, stopping halfway through the month of June. Mouth hanging open, Harry saw that the little square for June thirteenth seemed to have turned into a minuscule television screen." It had to be 1943 because Hagrid was expelled in the third year and he began attending in 1940.
  48. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 1
  49. 49.0 49.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 6
  50. Wizard of the Month
  51. 51.0 51.1 51.2 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: About the Author
  52. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Introduction (About this Book)
  53. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Hippocampus)
  54. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Snidget)
  55. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 20
  56. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15
  57. 57.0 57.1 57.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 18
  58. 58.0 58.1 58.2 58.3 58.4 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 1
  59. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 33
  60. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 18
  61. 61.0 61.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 9
  62. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 1
  63. 63.0 63.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 6
  64. The Harry Potter Prequel by J. K. Rowling
  65. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 4
  66. 66.0 66.1 66.2 66.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 19
  67. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 36
  68. 68.0 68.1 68.2 68.3 68.4 68.5 68.6 68.7 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 30
  69. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10
  70. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 17
  71. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 4
  72. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 2
  73. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 17
  74. 74.0 74.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 9
  75. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17
  76. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26
  77. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7
  78. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Chapter 38 - Luna says she was nine when her mother died. J. K. Rowling later confirmed that Luna's birthday was 13 February, meaning Pandora died between these dates.
  79. 79.0 79.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Nineteen Years Later
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